The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.45
The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.45
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B.C. 220 Euthydēmos of Magnesia overthrows Diodotos of Baktria and usurps his kingdom; is in full power at the time of the eastern expedition of Antiokhos III (B.C. 208). Euthydēmos considerably extended the Greek power in India, and ruled "also the widest district ever possessed by the Greeks to the north of the Paropamisos, from Margiana to Chinese Tartary."—LIA. ii, 307. Von Sallet, *Nachfolger Alexanders*, 5. BMC., *G.S.K.*, xxi.